NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 11 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 2235 MHz vs 650 MHz
82.7x more texture fill rate: 1,290 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 90 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 1 October 2006
Core clock speed	2235 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	1,290 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO

5.6x lower typical power consumption: 81 Watt vs 450 Watt
Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	81 Watt vs 450 Watt
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO
PassMark - G2D Mark	1297
PassMark - G3D Mark	38287
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	582.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	98.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	178.756
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2968.159
Geekbench - OpenCL	317791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Curie
Code name	AD102	G71
Launch date	20 Sep 2022	1 October 2006
Place in performance rating	13	not rated
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz
Core clock speed	2235 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,290 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16384
Pixel fill rate	443.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	1,290 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	450 Watt	81 Watt
Transistor count	76300 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	304 mm, 12 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	1x 6-pin
Width	137 mm, 5.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0c
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	1,008 GB/s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR3